1Kosmos, founded in 2018, builds government-grade digital identity verification and phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication for enterprises. The threat model here is credential theft at scale - phishing, social engineering, compromised passwords - and the company's answer is to eliminate the password entirely, anchoring identity in biometrics and verified credentials instead.
The core product is the BlockID platform, which unifies identity proofing, credential verification, and continuous authentication in a single privacy-first architecture. The technical stack spans biometrics, identity verification, and authentication, operating across banking, healthcare, government agencies, and enterprise verticals. The system handles millions of daily authentications with 99%+ accuracy, deployed worldwide.
This is identity infrastructure for organizations where the stakes of a compromised credential aren't theoretical - regulated industries, critical systems, environments with compliance mandates baked into the procurement process. The work sits at the intersection of cryptographic identity, biometric signal processing, and real-time auth at volume.
